>HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual The COBOL DISPLAY statement can be used to transfer low volume data to the operator's console, a terminal, or the line printer. Examples are provided in COBOL programs.

>IBM COBOL/400, iSeries Language Help Manual The COBOL DISPLAY statement transfers the contents of each operand to the output device or system defined local data area. The COBOL DISPLAY statement has three formats: Data Transfer, Local Data Area, and Workstation I/O.

>University of Northern Iowa The COBOL DISPLAY statement is described as it was presented in the Compaq COBOL User Manual. The COBOL DISPLAY statement transfers low-volume data from the program to the default system output device or to the object of a mnemonic-name.